Landon Steiner is entering his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Transylvania baseball team for the 2024 season.
A native of Lexington, Steiner made his homecoming to the Bluegrass in 2020 as he helped guide the Pioneers to a 6-5 record in an abbreviated campaign. As part of the Transylvania baseball coaching staff, Steiner oversaw three victories over Top 25 teams in 2020 as the Pioneers continued their regional ascent. Steiner saw the Pioneers return to HCAC dominance in the 2023 season with 24 wins and earning the 2 seed in the HCAC tournament.
Steiner’s contributions helped Transylvania have a historic season in 2021, capped off by the program’s first NCAA Tournament Victory, on top of HCAC regular season and tournament championships. Developed by Steiner, Jake Schmidt was the 2021 HCAC Pitcher of the Year, along with Trent Youngblood named as Newcomer of the Year, and four overall First Team selections from the group.
The 2022 season was one of many valuable experiences for Steiner and the Pioneers, who faced the challenge of playing their home games across various ballparks in Richmond, Florence, as well as Louisville. The young squad came away with 14 wins and a 7-11 conference record. Steiner’s group, including a very young pitching staff, had many bright spots as players established themselves in the lineup. The growth from the 2022 season will help next the Pioneers exponentially as they look to make another run at the HCAC title.
Steiner came to Transylvania after two seasons with the Asheboro Copperheads of the Coastal Plain League in Asheboro, North Carolina where he served as a first base and hitting coach for the team. In his most recent season on the Asheboro coaching staff, the Copperheads set a club record for home runs in a season with 50; over his two seasons with the club, Asheboro had six players selected to the Coastal Plains League All-Star Game. Steiner helped Asheboro improve its win total by six games from 2018 to 2019.
Steiner began his coaching career with Asheboro after playing professional baseball with the White Sands Pupfish of the Pecos League in New Mexico. Steiner signed his professional contract with White Sands after completing his collegiate baseball career at NCAA Division II Winston-Salem State University in 2017.
Steiner spent the final two years of his collegiate career at Winston-Salem State as a versatile talent, registering a 2.84 earned-run average with 26 strikeouts and five saves in 19 innings of work as the team’s closer in his senior year of 2017. In the 2017 season, Steiner was named a First Team All-CIAA award-winner as a first baseman as he led his team to a conference title. Though WSSU came one game short of the Division II College World Series in 2017, Steiner was named to the All-Atlantic Region Tournament Team. As a junior at WSSU, Steiner logged a team-high batting average of .358 and was again named to the All-CIAA First Team. In his two years at WSSU, Steiner totaled 71 runs batted in, 12 home runs, and a career batting average of .349.
Steiner began his collegiate career at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville, North Carolina where he overcame injury to log a team-best batting .368 batting average and notching six home runs for the season. He graduated from Winston-Salem State University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management.
His appointment at Transy marks a return for Steiner to his hometown of Lexington where he starred at Henry Clay High School as an infielder and pitcher.
